Dan Vachon： How to Grow Food Even if You Live in the City
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Summary
Growing a lasagna garden doesn't have to be difficult or expensive. There are lots of ways you can do it in your own space. You don't even need a tiller to grow your own lasagna.
Transcript
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now some of you live in the city and you're crammed for space there may not be space some
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of you live in neighborhoods where there may be a little bit of space and you've got to consider
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options so here's some options you can get together with some of your neighbors and community gardens
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that's becoming a very popular thing and you know there's different ways of doing community gardens
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community gardens bring people together it's an opportunity to raise awareness and community
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now maybe you do have a little bit of space and you don't have to be italian to grow a lasagna garden
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now i know some of you know exactly what i'm talking about and uh oh thank you
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i have tried this and used it many many places as a matter of fact all of my raised beds
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are done in this way because we live on a gravel pit here i actually bought a dump truck load of
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dirt last year that was supposed to be topsoil i put it in my raised beds and it grew absolutely
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nothing as a matter of fact half the dump truck load was left over at the end of the summer i didn't
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even have one single weed growing in that pile of good for nothing nothing so here's what i did this
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year in my raised beds i did lasagna bed gardening basically you can start with grass you don't even
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need a tiller you only you don't even need talent so you get some uh newspaper four or five layers of
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newspaper and you wet them or cardboard you wet it you get bags of manure from your local um uh co-op
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store or farm supply store or a lot of the garden centers are closed now for the season so they may
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have that stuff on sale you get some chopped leaves some peat moss some grass clippings from uh mowing
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your lawn gather your grass clippings from your neighbor gather your your compost from your neighbors
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throw that on top more chopped leaves a thin layer of peat moss get some straw and if you don't have
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straw leave your grass clippings to dry for a few days until they turn ground there's your layer of
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straw a little bit of blood meal more grass clippings some peat moss a tiny little bit of soil
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chopped leaves compost and then if you actually want to plant in there right away a thin layer of dirt
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throw your seeds on there and you will grow not lasagnas but whatever your seeds are